Tag: dream interpretation

Too bad there’s no Duolingo or Babbel to help you speak and understand the symbolic language of dreams. You’re going to have to learn some other way to interpret your dreams The adage says, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Images in a dream can be packed with meaning. Meanings are conveyed simply with…

Dream interpretation used in this way comes in somewhere at the intersection of art and science like so many other things. It’s building on the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, and others on what we know about how the brain functions. The art comes in applying the symbols you remember from your dreams to your life and your questions.

Sometimes you’ve got to wonder what your dreams are telling you. It’s easy to go on the Internet and type in a query. People do every day. When it comes to getting definitive answers about what your dreams are telling you, good luck with that! When you’re trying to understand what it means, it’s not…

Now and then, a dream journaler is going to encounter a symbol or two he or she doesn’t quite understand. When they do, some will dismiss the symbols. They give up trying to understand them, perhaps assuming they were experiencing a bit of temporary craziness or jumbled thoughts. Don’t be too quick to do this.…

In honor of Valentine’s Day tomorrow, let’s think about staying together. Divorce and breaking up isn’t always the best answer. In your dream your boyfriend was awful. He yelled at you about nothing. You noted how veins were popping out on his forehead, spittle flying out of his mouth. Then, in the dream, he threw…

While making the rounds of various TV and radio talk shows, with the release of Dream Power (1972) and subsequent release of The Dream Game (1975), psychologist Ann Faraday popularized both the activity of dream journaling and the idea dreams could be meaningful. Her books sold over 500,000 copies, according to Harper & Row, her publisher. The Encyclopedia of…